Wallich 4665E (by 1832)
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| Wallich Catalogue 4665E herbarium sheet, from Wight's herbarium (by 1832) | |
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| Wallich 4665E (by 1832) | |
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| Wallich 4665E, held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E00248812 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00248812 |
| Collector Number | Wall. Cat. 4665E |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Wallich 4665E is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa from lot E of entry 4665 in Nathaniel Wallich's numbered list of the East India Company's herbarium, a lot from Hb. Wight, the herbarium of Robert Wight.[1] The sheet is E00248812 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[2][3]
The Wallich lot
Entry 4665 of the list, Cannabis sativa, is printed on page 166 and divides into eight lots, lettered A to H, most of them identified by the herbarium or garden that supplied the material: lot E reads Hb. Wight and lot F HBC. Lots G and H, added on page 215, are dated gatherings, from Nepal in 1821 and Tong Dong in 1826.[1] The list's main distribution began in December 1828 and ended in the summer of 1832 with entry 7683, on page 253.[4] The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew holds another sheet of the lot, K001039636, whose GBIF entry reads Hb. Wight; Cannabis sativa; EICH number: 4665 E.[5]
Labels
The sheet is inscribed in ink at the lower left Ind. Orient. E.I.C. and Wall. Cat. 4665. E.[6] Two further labels are pasted over the stems. One reads Cannabis sativa, Mus. and Garden 81. The other reads Cannabis sativa, Ganja (Duk.), Darwar jungles and May.[6] Neither label's wording appears in entry 4665 of the list, and nothing on the sheet says whether either belongs to the Wight lot.[1] Edinburgh's catalogue dates the sheet 1887.[2]
Specimen and identification
At least three leafy, flowering stems are mounted, and nothing marks which stem goes with which label.[6] The catalogue name is Cannabis sativa L.[2] A sheet from Wight's own herbarium at Edinburgh is Wight s.n. (1821), and lot F of the same entry is Wallich 4665F (by 1832).
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "4665: Cannabis sativa L." The Wallich Catalogue Online. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Cannabis sativa L., specimen E00248812". Herbarium catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 575107162: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ↑ Watson, Mark. "The Wallich Catalogue Project". Botanics Stories. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 1051241985: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Digitised sheet E00248812, IIIF manifest". RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 6 October 2026.